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What do you give a controversial African leader who has a state-funded car and a 300-room palace? Certainly not snail or snake, it seems. Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika’s minions told the Scottish executive’s caterers ahead of his visit last week that he was prepared to eat T-bone, poultry and goat, but not snakes and snails. How Bingu came to associate the idea of Jack McConnell’s executive with snakes is anyone’s guess